The current main lead on Sky News in the UK is this video. I hope the link works.
In case the link is broken, this is the story. A female reporter from Sky was accompanying a group of California Highway Patrol going door to door. In a house that looked completely untouched by water they found an elderly woman. She was adamant that she did not want to leave. She refused to let the police in but as the only woman in the group, she let the Sky reporter in to see her.
The police barged their way into the house and started to barrack the woman that she had to leave. She did not want to because of her two dogs and anyway she had stockpiles of food and water. Her response was that the scene was the reason she did not want the police to come in and they should leave. She was carrying a small handgun (by the barrel) and a kitchen knife in her hand and had been throughout. The police saw the gun and three jumped her, pushing her to the floor and into a corner of her kitchen.
The police let her sit down to recover from the shock which is when she explained to the Sky reporter about the dogs. When they had got her outside she was so distrustful of the police that she whispered to the reporter and asked her to collect her medication, money and cigarettes. She only agreed to leave when the police agreed to take her two dogs with her.
Upsetting as this may be, a more distressing incidence was reported in passing on the BBC. Recovery of the dead bodies is taking a new urgency as they are clogging some of the pumps draining the city.
